Question

Henderson Corp. provides unlimited paid leaves to its team members, as long as its employees ensure that their work is completed. Kelly, a long-standing team member, takes advantage of this and has taken more than her fair share of leaves every month, asking her colleagues to complete the work that she was supposed to do. This is an example of a dysfunctional norm resulting in _____.

a.free riding

b.group think

c. boundary spanning

d.bench marking

Answer 1

a. free riding

Step-by-step explanation:

-Free riding is when someone takes advantage of something without making any effort for it.

-Group think refers to a siuation in which groups want to maintain unity and start to think together but act in an irrational way.

-Boundary spanning refers to creating outside relatinships to be able to accomplish the organization's goals.

-Benchmarking is a tool in which companies are compared in different aspects to analyze their performance and find best practices.

According to this, the answer is that this is an example of a dysfunctional norm resulting in free riding as Kelly is taking advantage of the norm to take the leaves but she is not doing her job.